Thread: something loose?

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You bet
There's other reasons, too: I use my van as a tour-bus for my band (which is the next scorer )
No, for real, I just like big cars, there are so many small sporty cars here in Germany, what with Japanese rubish everywhere. But a beaten old van laying rubber at stop lights is a sight you don't often get here. And it's good fun cruising around and things. But heck, you know why we drive V8s
But all this only counts for big cars with V8 engines which do actually MOVE
I don't like cars that don't MOVE. That about sums it up. So let's get this whale back on the road, that's what I say...

Right, now I've found something out: the source of vibration seems to have been a bent flexplate, the clanging sound seems to have been its loseness. Good thing, because I don't have to buy many new parts. Bad thing is, I only found it out, because I found absolutely nothing wrong with my engine internals, all crank and rod-bolts nice and tight. Spun on a balancing stand my FP showed a considerable bend to it, which it didn'T in the car, seems the TC was holding my FP straight. Now that's something you don't want. But as a lesson to everybody who's as dumb as me: a bend in a FP doesn't necesserily show up properly in the car...
At least I don't have to take my crank to the grinder's. But I will still get a new flexplate and I think I'll turn the old one into a barbeque-charcoal-holder. I've got an old sungear-shell lying around somewhere to use as a stand. Then I might as well hotrod my BBQ-skills for the summer
Thanks a lot for all your ideas and help,
Max